Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Page, 1919 - 312 pagine A series of stories which each explore some individual aspect of life in a paralytically sleepy Central American town while each advancing some aspect of the larger plot and relating back one to another in a complex structure which slowly explicates its own background even as it painstakingly erects a town which is one of the most detailed literary creations of the period. In this book, O. Henry coined the term "banana republic." |
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Pagina 266
... Dicky seemed to care nothing at all for the society of the alien residents of the town . He avoided Goodwin , and his skilful escape from the trepan- ning story of Dr. Gregg is still referred to , in Coralio , as a masterpiece of ...
... Dicky seemed to care nothing at all for the society of the alien residents of the town . He avoided Goodwin , and his skilful escape from the trepan- ning story of Dr. Gregg is still referred to , in Coralio , as a masterpiece of ...
Pagina 267
... Dicky entered , smiling broadly , full of white wine and the devil . He spent five minutes in punishing the coman ... Dicky , they stopped , and blew more whistles , which brought out reënforcements of eight . Deeming the odds against ...
... Dicky entered , smiling broadly , full of white wine and the devil . He spent five minutes in punishing the coman ... Dicky , they stopped , and blew more whistles , which brought out reënforcements of eight . Deeming the odds against ...
Pagina 268
... Dicky , being thoroughly imbued with the martial spirit , stooped and drew the comandante's sword , which was girded about him , and charged his foe . He chased the standing army four squares , playfully prodding its squealing rear and ...
... Dicky , being thoroughly imbued with the martial spirit , stooped and drew the comandante's sword , which was girded about him , and charged his foe . He chased the standing army four squares , playfully prodding its squealing rear and ...
Pagina 269
... Dicky . Pasa spoke calmly , as she always did , briefly , in her thrilling , flute - like tones . " Angel of my life , " she said , " let it not be long that thou art away from me . Thou knowest that life is not a thing to be endured ...
... Dicky . Pasa spoke calmly , as she always did , briefly , in her thrilling , flute - like tones . " Angel of my life , " she said , " let it not be long that thou art away from me . Thou knowest that life is not a thing to be endured ...
Pagina 270
... Dicky , who seemed to speak in English or Spanish as the whim seized him , " this is dry provender , muchachita . Is this the best you can dig up for a fellow ? " Pasa looked at him as a mother looks at a be- loved but capricious babe ...
... Dicky , who seemed to speak in English or Spanish as the whim seized him , " this is dry provender , muchachita . Is this the best you can dig up for a fellow ? " Pasa looked at him as a mother looks at a be- loved but capricious babe ...
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admiral aguardiente American Anchuria Atwood bananas beach Beelzebub Billy Keogh Blythe boat bottle captain Caribs Casa Morena chair cigar Clancy coast cocoanut Colonel Falcon consul Coralio crew Dalesburg dark Dicky dollars Don Sabas door drink El Nacional Estebán eyes face Felipe flag friends Geddie graft grass Gregg Guatemala hand head Hemstetter honour Johnny Karlsefin lady land laugh looked Losada Madama Maloney Mellinger morning native never night Number Olivarra Orleans paint Pasa pesos phonograph picture President Miraflores president's republic revolution Rosine sail sand says seemed Señor Goodwin señorita shoes shore sloop smile smoke Spanish Spanish Main steamer steps stood street tell there's thing thousand tintypes tion took town trepanning tropics turned Twas valise Vega verree Vesuvius Wahrfield waiting walked White Winchester rifles yacht Zavalla